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Poetry of the Thirties
Penguin Books Ltd 2000; Not AvailableAuden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic... more...
The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailablePoetry remains a living part of the culture of Japan today. The clichés of everyday speech are often to be traced to famous ancient poems, and the traditional forms of poetry are widely known and loved. The congenial attitude comes from a poetical history of about a millennium and a half. This classic collection of verse therefore contains poetry from... more...
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableOver the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many... more...
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableControversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models... more...
Dichtungen der Universitätsjahre 1715-1719
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 321.00This edition includes manuscripts (re)discovered in Breslau and elsewhere, the contemporaneous collected editions, later transcriptions, and the Nachlässe of the scholars Enders and Kräme. The poems, letters, and the school dramas are arranged according to their periods of creation as well as traditional genres. The volume includes the original version... more...
The Odyssey
Random House Group Ltd 2010; US$ 9.33Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? And what new tests await him if he ever finally reaches his home... more...
Between Baudelaire and Mallarmé
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Helen Abbott examines the verse and prose poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarmé, together with their critical writings, to address how their attitudes towards the performance practice of poetry influenced the future of both poetry and music. Abbott considers the meaning of 'voice' in terms of rhetoric, the human body, exchange, and music,... more...
Speak, Old Parrot
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 20.012013 marks Dannie Abse's 90th birthday. In his lifetime he has published an astonishing array of work including poetry, fiction, criticism, plays and autobiography but it is as a poet that he is best known and loved. In Speak, Old Parrot he returns to themes of loss, love, medicine and its moral implications, the nature of creativity,... more...
Two for Joy
Random House 2010; US$ 20.01Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car crash in 2005. After her death he wrote his extraordinary memoir of loss, The Presence , which was the Wales Book of the Year in 2008. In contrast, much of this new collection is a delightful celebration. In it Dannie Abse returns to their marriage... more...
Milton & Toleration
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 109.99Locating John Milton's works in national and international contexts, and applying a variety of approaches from literary to historical, philosophical, and postcolonial, Milton and Toleration offers a wide-ranging exploration of how Milton's visions of tolerance reveal deeper movements in the history of the imagination. Milton is often enlisted... more...









